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Castlevania Order of Ecclesiahttps://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/castlevania-order-of-ecclesia/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/castlevania-order-of-ecclesia/#respondSun, 15 Nov 2009 04:40:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/castlevania-order-of-ecclesia
First time reviewing a game, and it's Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, starring my daughter, Shanoa.
First time reviewing a game, and it's Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, starring my daughter, Shanoa.
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First time reviewing a game, and it’s Castlevania Order of Ecclesia, starring my daughter, Shanoa.

She is Shanoa, my Musume. She looks kinda deadpan here. She works for this organisation called ‘Ecclesia’. My daughter is working already!

hahas. Above pictures are taken a few seconds after i decided to make this post.

Soo..
Order of Ecclesia (OoE) is a Castlevania Game, like duh. But what’s different is that, this time, it does not star a Belmont. Or anyone related. Oh! And first time in CV history, a girl is the main character of a canon game. I’m proud to say that my musume is the first girl to be the lead.
So, as I said before, my don;t mess with my musume, as she has some weapons no one had seen before. She uses these things call ‘Glyphs’.
So, ripped off from CV wikia,

“Shanoa is able to absorb the powers found in glyphs found throughout the castle and within enemies. These glyphs give her magical weapons and abilities and consume her magic meter, which automatically replenishes itself. She can equip a glyph in her right hand, her left hand, and on her back, marking a return to the two-handed weapon style only seen in Symphony of the Night. Each usage of glyph absorbs magic meaning simple attacks use magic. However, equipping certain glyph combinations in each hand will give the ability to activate a “Glyph Union”, which will execute a powerful special attack that consumes hearts instead of magic. Glyphs can be found in certain locations on the map, or can be dropped by enemies; at which point, Shanoa can absorb the glyphs simply by holding the up button. Additionally, there are Glyphs that affect the environment; Shanoa will have to absorb these in order to proceed. Besides from attacking, there are also glyphs that will boost skills, increase speed, transform Shanoa into an enemy creature, and so forth.”

Ya, my musume is powerful.
So, the story goes like this.===SPOILER WARNING===

“Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia takes place after Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, sometime in the early 1800s. As the Belmont Clan had vanished by that time, several organizations are created in order to research countermeasures against Dracula and his army’s eventual return. Between these organizations, the most promising was the Order of Ecclesia who created a triad of magical glyphs named “Dominus”. Shanoa is a young lady chosen by the order’s leader, Barlowe, as the human vessel for Dominus, but just before the ritual is performed, the glyphs are stolen by Shanoa’s best (and only) friend and fellow Ecclesia member Albus, disrupting the ritual and apparently costing Shanoa her emotions and memories. Upon awakening, Barlowe tells her of his version of the events and orders her to retrieve Albus and Dominus.

In her pursuit, Shanoa arrives in the deserted Wygol Village and finds out that Albus kidnapped its inhabitants and keeps each one of them imprisoned in a different location. As Shanoa rescues them throughout the game, she learns that Albus captured them to perform some kind of twisted experiment in them which involved draining samples of their blood. Each villager rescued provides Shanoa with tasks that once completed, provide new rewards. Although completing the tasks is not required to complete the game, its final areas are only unlocked when all villagers are rescued.

On two occasions, Shanoa manages to track down Albus, who willingly lets her retrieve one of the Dominus glyphs. But when she finds him possessed by the power of the third and final glyph, she is forced to battle him; it transpires his objective in gifting her with the glyphs was to learn her absorption technique. If there are villagers left to rescue at that part of the game, Shanoa retrieves the final piece of Dominus after killing Albus and immediately returns to Ecclesia to perform the ritual. The game ends with her untimely death and Barlowe’s master plan completed.

However, if all villagers are rescued before Shanoa’s final confrontation with Albus, his conscience fuses with hers when she absorbs the final glyph and she learns that Albus’s true intentions were to find a way to defeat Dracula without Shanoa using Dominus, as he knew that it would cost her life if she used it. He also reveals that the reason he experimented on the villagers was because they were the last descendants of the Belmont Clan, and he (erroneously) believed their blood would have the power to help him control Dominus without it consuming him. As for her lost emotions and memories, he revealed that Barlowe used them as a sacrifice to gain control of Dominus, a fact he hid from her. He also revealed that Dominus is made from Dracula’s own essence.

Confronting her master after learning the truth, Shanoa hears from him that his true objective all this time was to bring Dracula back to life using her as a sacrifice. After Barlowe is defeated, he ends up offering his own life to fulfill his ambition. With no memories left, no emotions left, and with the death of those who were most precious to hers, Shanoa sets for Dracula’s castle to put him back into his slumber, and complete the task she has spent her whole life preparing herself for. Shanoa infiltrates Dracula’s castle, defeats many of his underlings, and finally confronts him. She successfully defeats him using Dominus, but seemingly at the cost of her own life. However, Albus’s spirit appears and reveals to Shanoa that while using Dominus demands a life in return, it need not be hers. He gives up his own in Shanoa’s place after restoring her emotions and memories back, but not before he asks her to smile for him one last time. Albus’s soul disappears, Castlevania crumbles into ruins and Shanoa escapes. It is also said that all records of Ecclesia vanished soon afterward.”

===SPOILER ENDS NAO==

Yaa… so my daughter’s been having a hard life. So I’ll cherish her alot since I’ve adopted her ^^

Hahas

Points now,

Graphics ★★★★ 8.5
-I’ll admit that my Shanoa looks a little weird to those who played the other 2D Castlevanias. But overall, the graphics are nice. Not as dark and gloomy as Circle of the Moon. I like the death animation of many of the monsters.

Weapons (In this case, all the Glyphs) and Relics ★★★ 7
– The weapons are nice. But most of the weapon glyph have the same speed, so their difference is just their attribute, strength and design. Lacks challenge, but i guess the difficulty of the game overall somehow makes up for it.What i am not happy about is the lack of a super jump glyph/relic. The spells are cool, especially Nitesco. They got this new thing called the Glyph Union, which is basically combines the 2 Hand Glyph you are equipping and turn them into something more badass. Love the Nitesco + Weapon Union.

Maps ★★★★ 8
-Maps are fine, the Magnes point in some of the maps are really fun to play with. But they can also be a pain in the ass sometime. Also, the Training Hall is very fun. A map full of platforms that requires one to be an expert in controlling Shanoa to pass ^^.

Overall ★★★★✭ 9.0
Really fun game. Should buy / download it.

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]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/castlevania-order-of-ecclesia/feed/0BCOtakuDrama Night 2009, Drama Night 2009 Rehearsal and Open House 2009https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/drama-night-2009-drama-night-2009-rehearsal-and-open-house-2009/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/drama-night-2009-drama-night-2009-rehearsal-and-open-house-2009/#respondSat, 14 Nov 2009 08:28:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/drama-night-2009-drama-night-2009-rehearsal-and-open-house-2009Okay, as promised, this entire post is about Drama Nite 09. I’ll be covering the rehearsal, the actual thing and CCHMS Open House. =x Hahas. So, from after the EOY, the secondary ones had been having their Drama Nite rehearsal. Okay, granted that I’m also a Sec one, but I’m from AVA club ^^” Means I get to skip rehearsal and help out in the Grand Auditorium for the Technical Runs. Actually, the rehearsals are kinda boring, since the teachers usually just want them to repeat everything again and again, and doesn’t require that much help from the AVAs.

See? It got so boring that the AVA crew decided to play around with the roller chairs.
Giant Mixer O Doom. My first time playing with the mixer. Okay, I rephrase, first time I’ve played with the mixer for such a long period of time.
The Audi during the rehearsals. No one sitting, except for bags maybe.
My class. Posing for something. Seriously, although I am the stage manager, their script changes so fast that all I’ve done is to leave them alone for 2 days and I don’t know what they are doing now. Oh, they looked kinda stupid posing like that in their uniform =x
Boon Tao AKA Boon Boon AKA Oat Noob is singing. He’s the lead singer that screws up big time everytime he touches a mic.
Near the ending.Everyone gathering. Abigail’s the most extra. Everybody wear uniform except for her, she wear PE.
Ronnie playing the piano for the BGM in the play. Ivan’s “playing the guitar”, but when i stood beside them to tell them to start playing, Ivan apparently did nothing. In the end, Mdm Yati excluded him=x He too extra le.

Elephants walking on the floor. The floor mics are picking up very loud noise.

Some people in charge of the AVA of their class came up. They bought a netbook. I want a netbook =x But i guess that is a want but not a need.

Sorry for the upside down picture. I can’t be bother to flip it. A row of girls in black. All from the chinese group in my class.

Yimei sleeping. Hope she don’t see this.

Lol, that’s it for the rehearsals. The actual thing. Lol.. Can’t take much pictures except during break because it’s really way more hiong that during rehearsals. ==”
Hahas.

Lunch on the first day. Finally know why they put so much ketchup on the rice. It’s tasteless without it. The egg is nice though.

Alvin, Chon Wey and Eugene having their ‘reunion dinner’ in a corner.

Giant time skip to dinner time. Eugene decided to order McDonald’s but no one knows the number. There’s Eugene passing pushing the phone to Yan Lun. We asked Zhen Wei but he told us the taxi’s number ==” Finally Eugene called McDees.

Here is Eugene reading our orders off a list. =x

The dinner school provided. Usual canteen food, just repackaged.

My class’s “Butterfly Dance” thingy. Screws the whole play up IMO. A perfect play ruined by this dance.

Poster for my class’s english group.

Some class acting.

The emperor got up of his throne!

I realised that all the Chinese Drama has a scene like this.

Lol.. I know it’s quick.But, on to Open House now. I’m there for the AVA stuff once again

Reach school at 9.30 to help set up the Lecture Hall for the principal’s speech. Here’s the Principal talking. But it seems like the same thing as last year’s, except his year, he talked more about the 70th anniversary thingy.Choir singing in the Concourse. The AVAs could blend in =x Their shirt looks like ours.

Guitar playing something. Alot of problem with this group, since their playing brought alot of feedback, which is the screeching sound you sometimes hear when there is someone using a mic
And it was very soft too. We turned the volume of the mics to the max too.

Dance up next. They didn’t seem to realise that they are a walking Panchira Parade.
SJABs slacking in one corner. No one visited their booth it seems, so i visited it and acted as though I am not a part of it. =x I went like “Ecuse me, can you you me more about your CCA?” with a face like this: =3Board O Badges. No idea what they are for.Sergeant Lennon, Sergeant Ziyang, Lance Corporal Lucas posing for photo. Somehow, they don’t seem to know how to pose. The official Camera man got pissed of at them. No the official Camera man is not me. Is another guy. I’m just extra =xFinally they posed. Took the photo from the wrong angle though. But I’m still a recruit.. so i probably would get killed by them during training if they caught me taking their photo. Wait.. looking at the photo now, I think Sergeant Ziyang caught me =x
The scouts booth next. Poor scouts, the entire booth, only one person taking care of it. Comparing it with the SJABs.. lol

hahas the end!

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/drama-night-2009-drama-night-2009-rehearsal-and-open-house-2009/feed/0BCOtakuRandom AVA stuff here.https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/random-ava-stuff-here/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/random-ava-stuff-here/#respondWed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/random-ava-stuff-hereAs some of you might know it is the Drama Nite for the past 2 days and today. I’ve been staying in school for around 13.5 hours everyday, so I’ve been darn tired. But.. things are so fun!Everyday in the morning, we would fight over on who to play with the mixer during the event. The mixer is something that controls the sensitivity, volume, frequency and whatnot of the microphones. Playing with the mixer, or as the current AVA club called it, “Playing the Piano” or “Being Beethoven” , is one of the most fun things ever.you get to enjoy the aircon,sit on a chair, relax somewhat. But it is the most important and difficult job, you have to be alert on everything happening and the slightest noise can disrupt you. So, you can slack while doing the most important job at the same time.Okay, granted that the lights are also very important and you can also slack – only if the class currently acting sent a representative to do the lights for them. Even though lights are kinda slack, it’s also very important for the play.

So i guess My week is kinda normal, except that i visited my grandma at the hospital more often this Week. She fell down and broke her arm and leg. She just had an operation on her leg and thank Haruhi that she is fine already.
Nothing much this week except for Drama Nite rehearsal. But i’ll go over the rehearsals on another post together with the actual Drama Nite soon.So, pictures time.

The above is my breakfast at i forgot which day. Soft boiled eggs with kaya toast. Recently fallen in love with soft boiled eggs. <33

===School, so no photos===Back from school and had dinner at Ajisen Ramen in Tampines Mall before going to the hospital. Had cha-shu Ramen and some fried squid thingy. Doesn’t taste bad, but i won’t say that it taste very nice.
Walked to the hospital. Apparently, my grandma’s fine already, so she’s recuperating (did i spell it correctly?) in a lil’ recuperating centre inside the hospital. Went there only to find out that she went to another hospital to do something. So, I just stayed in the cafeteria of the recuperating centre while waiting for her to be back. The nurse said she’d be back in 20minutes. I bought a can of iCafe Vanilla coffee and i loved it. Gotta find out if any shops near my house is selling it. Mum bought hot coffee. The dustbin in the Cafeteria. Filled to the brim yet no one’s here to clear it yet. And it’s suppose to be a hospital, where everything is (supposedly) clean.The lone store of the cafeteria. Not sure if i could still call it cafeteria. Sells drinks and baos.Reception counter of the recuperating centre. No one’s there. And no, they are not hiding behind the pillar.See, they are really not hiding behind the pillar. What if people needs help? Who do the approach? The cafeteria lady?The coffee mum bought. Looks like poo and taste like poo.So after waiting forever, my grandmother is finally back. Apparently, my aunt called some ambulance service to bring her back. She said that they were speeding like there was no tomorrow. There’s my aunt paying the ambulance fee.

More ramen for dindins (another day of course) this time, it’s Tontoro Ramen. From the little japanese i can understand, it apparently is pork stomach? Or the mean somewhere around there? Taste like normal meat though. i got ripped off?This time, Side dish is fried tofo thingy. Not bad.

Err.. my week is pretty much like that. Nothing much. Next week’s “A week of my Life” is about Drama Night , SJAB on Friday and CCHMS open House entirely (because that’s how I spent my week.) So, no “A week of my life” next week.

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/a-week-of-my-life-2/feed/0BCOtakuKobato. and Kobato. Episode 3 reviewhttps://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kobato-and-kobato-episode-3-review/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kobato-and-kobato-episode-3-review/#respondFri, 30 Oct 2009 10:17:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kobato-and-kobato-episode-3-reviewWell, I’ve realised that I have not done a review for Kobato. yet, So, I’ll do the review for the series so far and episode 3 together.

So.. Kobato. is an anime about this girl called Kobato Hanato.So there!~

Err… not enough ar?So, Kobato Hanato is this cute little girl going around to ‘heal the hearts of people’ to collect their ‘broken hearts’. Apparently, ‘broken hearts’ sound very weird, so Kobato decides to call them ‘Candies’ instead.Now, Kobato has this talking stuffed animal that breathes fire called Ioryogi. I’m assuming that Ioryogi is a officer or something similar in a certain military. Why? He acts like one.Kobato runs all around the place looking for hearts to heal. But somehow, she screws up halfway all the time and got scolded / burned by Sir Ioryogi.But at the end of the day, Kobato somehow always managed to solve the problem. Or create another problem.Pictures time!

Taken from the opening of Kobato.. Looks Cute.

From episode 3. Ioryogi waiting to kill Kobato.

New girl appears in Kobato. I think her name is Mutsumi. She’s Tsundere^^

Kobato’s getting more candy.

Mutsumi in deredere mode? Maybe?

Kobato get pinched by Fujimoto.

Kobato’s 1 minute and 23 seconds late for work according to Fujimoto

Guess who?

It’s the butt shaking bunny! Srsly, I hate it.

Mutsumi’s gonna get fat. The boy looks like a evil short haired Syaoran, no?

Hey! Piffle Princess has a store here!

Kobato is living up to her name and is trying to fly. (Her name means little dove)

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/kobato-and-kobato-episode-3-review/feed/0BCOtakuA week of my life 1https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/a-week-of-my-life-1/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/a-week-of-my-life-1/#respondMon, 26 Oct 2009 08:10:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/a-week-of-my-life-1I ran out of ideas on what to write in my blog, so I decided to write this, a week of my life. Basically as it suggest on the tin, I’ll be writing about my weekly life.. not too interesting I guess, since i’m not some famous people or somethin and I’m not exactly doing different things every week. So i think you’ll see pretty much the same things every week. Bear with it. I swear it’ll get more interesting soon.

So, this week is just like any other week except that i finally got my results back. Luckily I did not fail any subject. Well, I had never failed anything before…Lol..

First up, since it’s post exam activities time, We go to school a little later than usual (although only for one day). At the bus stop at about 9.30 am. The bus above has plenty of passengers on it. But the photo doesn’t really shows it.Boarded bus 10 and took it all the way to school. Trip took about 45 minutes. On the bus, I realised that where the first aid kit was kept in has a sign that was placed wrongly. Funny. Wonder what would people do if they are really that er.. to put it nicely.. does not recognize what the cross symbol means.

A few stops before Katong shopping center, a few foreigners wanting to board the bus, but does not know which bus to board, so they sent someone up the bus to ask the bus driver. Apparently the bus was going their way and they all clambered onto the bus. I got off the bus a few stops later and walked to school.

===No Pictures in School===

So school’s over and I took the bus home.

Had lunched at the coffee shop near my house . I had the Mini Wok Noodles. It cost me $3.80. It had some balls made of animal meat and some other stuff floating around.

Went to school the next day. There’s CCA so I’ll have to bring my Uniform (actually the pants since I does not have the shirt yet). I brought the giant uniform cover and my bag that’s stuffed with my shoes and training materials onto the bus. Blurry picture coz bus was moving suddenly.

Around 6.15 in the morning. No cars on the road.Reached school at around 6.40am, surprising how bright a place can get in just 25 minutes.Same road, about half a day later, at 19 00hrs . Still can see the sun.Same road, except now facing the other way. The body at the bottom left of the pictures belongs to Li Jun, one of my squadmates.(realised that it sounds like he’s dead. lol.)

The supermart near my bus stop. Used to be called K-Store but somehow changed the already stupid name to something even more stupid – Green Begger Supermart.Similarly, less than half an hour later, it has gotten so dark already. But at least the lights brighten it up.I wonder how many figures can I buy if all of these lights were turn off for 1 week.The bus stop at night. Only one person in sight.Bright lights as signs for places too.Random fury of lightsHelping my mother out at her stall. Saw lotsa leeks. Do you think Miku would like it here?Dinner consist of take away roast dead animals.And weird soup with things floating in it.The sauce that comes along with it looks weird too.Lol at the headlines. Military Blasts Proposed Pea lol.

Lol so that’s it for this week.

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/a-week-of-my-life-1/feed/0BCOtakuWindows 7https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/windows-7/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/windows-7/#commentsWed, 21 Oct 2009 07:55:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/windows-7Wow! Windows 7 would be released tomorrow in Singapore and this week’s Digital Life already has a review on it.It seems that there’s no negative things written about Windows 7. Too bad my scanner is down, so I can’t really scan the article and post it. But there seems to be no complains about it. Windows 7 would be sold in the following prices.Home Premium – $359Home Premium upgrade – $219Professional – $529Professional upgrade – $359Ultimate – $549Ultimate upgrade – $379

Hm.. the price is certainly cheaper than the $788 of OS X 10.6 but the upgrade price for OS X 10.6 is only $48. Although I’m a Mac user, I’m really interested in Windows OS because.. well… hmm 1 word ‘Eroge’. haha. I’m gonna run either Bootcamp or Parallels with Windows 7, well, sooner or later, or maybe when someone is willing to sponsor me a 7 install disk? Or maybe sponsor me 10.6 disk?

Source: Digital Life Wednesday October 21, 2009

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/windows-7/feed/1BCOtakuhttps://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/52/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/52/#respondWed, 21 Oct 2009 07:02:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/52I’ve been wondering, should I write a weekly report on how life here on Little Red Dot? I can’t think of anything else other than anime and complains to put on my blog.. Suggestions?

Okay, you guys can laugh at me when no one decides to put in their votes.

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/52/feed/0BCOtakuUSB Drive is saved?https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/usb-drive-is-saved/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/usb-drive-is-saved/#respondWed, 21 Oct 2009 04:09:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/usb-drive-is-savedAs some of you might know, something happened to my USB drive and that something made my USB drive not functional. But yesterday, after plugging in the drive and screw around with it in ‘Disk Utility’ , I somehow managed to get it to work again O.O

My sweet USB Drive plugged to my MacBook^^

To prove that it is working^^ See the Ryo there? Yup, it’s working ^^

]]>https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/usb-drive-is-saved/feed/0BCOtakuLife as a SJAB Cadet 1https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/life-as-a-sjab-cadet-1/
https://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/life-as-a-sjab-cadet-1/#respondWed, 21 Oct 2009 01:26:00 +0000http://bcotaku.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/life-as-a-sjab-cadet-1Today, after receiving the news that CCA is returning this Friday, I really wish I could skip it. I mean, it’s after the exams and a day before the holidays.. and they still want to torture us? They think we are masochist or something? And to make things worse, we have to spend our holidays having training! A total waste of time IMO. But.. This is life and I can’t deny that I don’t like CCA and want to skip it, but skipping CCA would means that I would have to hand in a letter of absence.. I don’t have an excuse to do so ==” Maybe one of you want to act as my parent and help me write the letter? ><“

But, I realized that I haven’t do anything I was supposed to do. I remembered that I was told to cut a piece of card or something to be place inside my beret to hold up the crest or something.

The piece of card that I cut. No prize for guessing what card it is.

My beret after placing in the card

Also, I must polish my shoes ==” Waste of time much? Yes, but NCOs demands polishing.